Are we seeing through the nonsense about Israel/Gaza on the social media?
The nonsense is stacking up on social media servers across the world – but it seems our tolerance is wearing thin, as is that of the more professional public representatives.
For example:
BBC propaganda by omission brilliantly exposed immediately and in real time.@medialens @craigmurrayblog @skwawkbox @MidWalesMike @PiersRobinson1 @Tim_Hayward_ @simonmaginn https://t.co/NlNvgcLOdy
— leftworks #WeAreCorbyn (@leftworks1) November 27, 2023
Then there’s this:
The vast majority of people in the West, indeed in the World, support Palestinians & detest the Fascist regime of Israel,yet virtually all Western political leaders support Netanyahu's Israel ,WHY????
— christian barnaby🇵🇸🇵🇸 (@christi02455387) November 28, 2023
The question is understandable, when faced with comments like this – and see my response also:
Israel cut off power to incubators that were keeping premature babies alive and it is understood that six of them died.
That is the action of a sick and psychotic terror group. That's what they do.
— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) November 28, 2023
I wasn’t trying to make Hamas look better than Israel, of course; I was simply pointing out that neither side can take the moral high ground.
I was making much the same point here:
Are we to take it that you are not one of the legion who took to the social media to condemn Hamas "rapists" for kidnapping children (to quote one common example)?
These people whipped up fear over what was happening to the hostages. And was it justified?
— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) November 28, 2023
Meanwhile, Israel’s representatives continue to make themselves look oppressive and unreasonable.
Here, one called Simcha Rothman suggests that the United Nations has kept refugees in Gaza for 75 years without finding a new home for them, in order to hurt Israel.
He wants them to be resettled elsewhere – but seems oblivious to the fact that the best place to resettle them is in the Palestinian land from which they were removed by Israelis; the land that was taken from them illegally. In fact, it is the only place to which they should be returned.
Simcha Rothman is a member of the Israeli parliament for the Religious Zionism party, part of the ruling coalition. Listen to him explain that the UN has kept refugees in Gaza for 75 years in order to hurt Israel & these refugees should be settled in other places. pic.twitter.com/dZhtJP7vVF
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) November 28, 2023
Here’s Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, explaining how he manipulates foreign governments by pretending to support treaties and agreements, while actually finding loopholes that allow him to do only a fraction of what is expected of him:
Very Important… Netanyahu explaining how he succeeded in wrecking the Oslo Peace Accords, neutering for Palestinian Authority and doing his best to stop a Two State Solution https://t.co/RS48FJGGoR
— William Dalrymple (@DalrympleWill) November 28, 2023
Here’s a response, looking at the UK’s perspective on all this:
2) This isn't an 'antisemitic trope'. It's an unacceptable truth. It's an evidenced truth. It must change. The Tories claim the UK is a 'sovereign state' after taking us out of the EU. That is a lie. That needs to change.
— Revolution Breeze (@SueJonesSays) November 28, 2023
4) Israeli diplomat Shai Masot caught on camera plotting to 'take down' UK MPs. https://t.co/vggcchOGVH
— Revolution Breeze (@SueJonesSays) November 28, 2023
Look at the racism in the following tweet, based on a tweet purporting to show anti-Israel protesters telling the police they can ignore what the police are telling them.
Watch the video and you’ll see that police officers were trying to stop the protesters from using the “From the River to the Sea…” chant. But they admitted that it isn’t illegal, meaning there was no reason for the protesters to comply. So in fact, they paid attention to the police, comprehended what was being said to them and chose to ignore the request.
We let their parents in, now their offspring are hating on our streets.
We gave them education, healthcare, democracy, benefits, job opps…now they're hating on our streets.
We gave them freedom of speech & now they're emboldened, powerful, untouchable, they hate with impunity. https://t.co/Kl6mzsOPVv— Jo (@mitsyarty) November 28, 2023
An IDF representative tells us that the handover of Israeli hostages was “heavily choreographed and rehearsed” – but why could the hostages themselves not say this? Where are they? Did they all want to be kept away from the media? Did none of them want to speak up for the record?
Israeli hostages were forced to hold hands with and smile farewell to their brutal Hamas captors in choreographed release scenes.
Evidently, some people are gullible enough to fall for this. https://t.co/OGFzqt0qmL— Jonathan Conricus (@jconricus) November 28, 2023
Here’s an American politician lying about the way Israeli hostages were treated while they were in Hamas captivity. Note that they ate the same food – in the same amounts – as their captors; if you starve a whole region, you starve everybody in it, including your own people:
My God, you are beyond shameless! The testimony of released hostages, as reported across the Israeli press, is the opposite of your grotesque lies.
But then that’s all you Zionists have, isn’t it?
Lies, lies, lies…. pic.twitter.com/czpEnPUqoZ
— Phil Gould 🇵🇸🖕🥁 (@bongosaloon) November 28, 2023
Here’s more of the same kind of thing. Notice that the original posters don’t respond to criticism of their claims?
What kind of monsters bomb the location where that 84-year-old grandmother is being kept (Gaza), so access to medical aid there is restricted? It's your 'Hannibal doctrine' in action. Own it.
— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) November 28, 2023
More usefully, efforts to prosecute Israelis for war crimes are moving forward. Here’s a surgeon who just got back to the UK from Gaza, describing his experience:
"There was a girl with just her whole body covered in shrapnel. She was nine. I ended up having to change and clean these wounds with no anaesthetic."
Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a surgeon who recently returned from Gaza after 41 days, describes the conditions at Al-Shifa Hospital. pic.twitter.com/75sbBWZyEH
— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) November 28, 2023
And here he is after meeting Scotland Yard’s war crime unit (wow – I didn’t know it had one) to give evidence of war crimes in Gaza to the authorities. Hopefully this will be passed to the International Criminal Court, which is already investigating.
Professor Ghassan and ICJP Director @tayab_ali_ met with Scotland Yard’s War Crime Unit today to start the process of passing evidence of war crimes in Gaza to law enforcement authorities.
The first step to accountability… https://t.co/G3mdG6MB5f
— ICJP (@ICJPalestine) November 28, 2023
And here’s Sex and the City actress Cynthia Nixon, making a strong point about the way Gaza is being deprived of food by going on hunger strike herself – (presumably) to pressure US President Joe Biden to influence Israel to reverse that decision:
‘Never again means never again for everyone.’
Actress Cynthia Nixon, ‘as the mother of Jewish children, whose grandparents survived the holocaust’, declares her hunger strike to demand a permanent ceasefire.
Biden, Sunak, Starmer- shamed.pic.twitter.com/sBsiibzdyx
— Howard Beckett (@BeckettUnite) November 28, 2023
More to follow (inevitably. And more. And more…)
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